"Hahahaha!"

On the 7th, the day of Song Ya's tour in New York, the scale is slightly smaller than that of Chicago, and all the tickets are sold out.

In the afternoon, Song Ya was comfortably lying on the sofa in the lounge watching financial programs.

Today is Pearl Harbor Memorial Day, Microsoft held its Internet strategy seminar on this day, with Netscape market value from 10 billion is only one foot away, seven Internet companies have been successfully listed one after another, the Internet tide should be undoubted, the software giant seems to suddenly have a plan to make amends, Microsoft boss, the world's richest man Bill Gates turned to talk enthusiastically about the Internet. He said: 'I think the development of the Internet in the next few years will determine the direction of the entire industry for a long time. Now I assign the highest level of importance to the Internet. I want to make it clear that our focus on the Internet comes first. ’

But now the industry thinks he's noticeably slower to react, and the software giant's new operating system is selling well and the stock has been rising, but so what? You seem to have missed the future completely.

He also said, 'Netscape is not a great piece of software. This sentence further exposes the arrogance and ignorance of the old software giants about new companies and technologies.

Some of the financial guests who saw the rudder began to follow the example of Netscape President Barksde and New Tech Hero Mark Anderson, and joked about Microsoft with humorous and detrimental rhetoric, saying that their slow pace is now completely unable to keep up with the new behavior patterns of Internet companies, and it took three years from Windows 3.1 to 95, while Netscape Browser releases major updates every three months.

Even the blue giant, IBM, which has always been scolded as the most bureaucratic and slow to respond to technology companies, officially launched it by acquiring Lotus Software and modifying Lotus Software's Notes program into a www server program, and Oracle also announced its browser plan early.

And what about Microsoft? I bought a long time outdated.,Mark Anderson's college work Mosaic browser was released as IE1.0 with slight changes.,It's hard to use.。

And the software industry has always only been the first, Microsoft itself should have a deep experience, and now it has reacted and wants to catch up? It's late!

The cynicism of the financial guests has been going on for some time about Microsoft's hard mouth in the direction of the Internet from a dead duck to putting gold on its face, and all of them speak very well.

After deciding to divorce, the feeling of depression that always lingered before seems to be gone, Netscape's market value is 10 billion, what is 3 percent of 10 billion? Song Ya grinned silly at the TV.

The staff who served him, such as Fuhuadao, were busy in this superstar-treated super lounge, very professionally holding their breath and doing the work at hand lightly.

“Yo，APLUS。”

NAS came with the administrator Newman, who would be the opening guest of the concert as a New York landlord and sworn friend.

"Hey, where's Daniel?"

Song Ya bumped fists with him and looked behind Newman, Mr. President of Sony Columbia Records unexpectedly did not appear, the gymnasium was very close to the headquarters, and he should have arrived a long time ago.

"The head office has a very important meeting on the issue of music piracy on the Internet." Newman replied.

"Sit down."

Song Ya turned off the TV and chatted with them, the music industry is the hardest hit by piracy, and top singers like himself are now hurt the most by NAS and small and medium-sized singers with lower coffee ranks, NAS, known as street poets, is becoming more and more famous in the East Coast rap circle, and is almost one of the favorite rappers of professional music critics, but record sales still can't match his fame at all.

For example, Common, a subsidiary of A+ Records, has super high album music reviews, but it can't sell records, because rap music has a tradition of selling songs through 'underground records', and that channel has been taken over by pirated CDs that are becoming more and more convenient to burn and disseminate in the past two years.

NAS is getting angrier, in New York, he is marginalized by the 'bad boys biquge.xyz' led by the braggadoc, Biggie, and the East and West Coast Wars, and there are countless rising stars in Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and other places who want to use DISS to get on the spot, stuck in the middle, and splinted.

"That Jazzy of yours has a lot of tricks." He said.

"Jazzy didn't mess with you, did he? I said hello to Damon Dash. Song Ya also heard Linda mention that Jazzy has been getting more famous in Brooklyn lately.

It should be a natural star, and it can be seen from the apocalyptic lyrics of the Heart of the Empire, giving him a little sunshine, and he can take advantage of the situation to brag about it, such as being valued by APLUS and signing a contract, Sony Columbia Records, one of the Big Six, will release his songs, and also has his own record company Roc-A-Fella, etc., plus he has prison experience, packaging himself like a street gangster, and soon pulling up followers and forces in Brooklyn.

He also picked two or three New York rappers to play beef, stepped on each other's top positions all the way, and got in touch with Biggie, who was promoted several times in Brooklyn by Biggie as a little brother, and heard that Biggie was even willing to collaborate with him on songs......

In short, this guy is becoming more and more famous in New York, and he can be seen wherever he is a little troubled, taking advantage of the heat and first-class skills to do things, which is quite a bit of a dragon returning to the sea.

"Nope."

NAS didn't come to take eye medicine, Jazzy's status was far from him, and he didn't dare to rub him after being warned by himself, but he should be a little wary of Jazzy's rise, and besides, he looked down on that guy in his heart before, "You know APLUS, now I'm annoyed with that kind of little singer who can't get rid of chewing gum." ”

"Hey! Alicia, and Ms. Sloane! ”

After chatting for a few words, Song Ya saw two working beauties appear at the door of the lounge, and laughed out loud in some surprise: "Come in!" We're talking about New York's music scene. ”

"Really?" Alicia was in a good mood, came in and took off her trench coat casually, and handed it to Linda, "Hello Linda, are you back as an assistant again?" What about Taraghi? ”

"No, I'm just here to stare at the boss's concert, and Taragi is in charge of communicating with the director outside." Linda smiled and helped her hang up, "Congratulations to Mrs. Flock, oh, now it's time to call Mrs. Governor." Give it to me, Ms. Sloane. She helped Sloan take off his coat again, "New York is warmer than Chicago, right?" ”

"Yes." Alicia kindly held out her hand to Newman and NAS with a programmatic smile on her way to voters, "Hello. ”

"Hello, Mrs. Governor Flock." Newman stood up and shook her hand.

NAS had no choice but to shake hands with a puzzled face, probably thinking that the governor's wife was a nickname, and Newman led him away with a very good look.

"You don't have to come over to Alicia at this time, my work can wait until after Peter's inauguration next month." Song Ya lay down and stretched out his fist to her.

She was stunned for a moment, then smiled playfully, and learned to touch her fist, "He's him and I'm me, I like to do my job, not the so-called governor's wife, women are independent, right?" Sloane. ”

"Uh-huh." Ms. Sloane's eyes were sharp, "You're looking for me?" APLUS。 ”

"Yes, Linda, close the door. Go out first, all of you. Song Ya sent the staff away, changed a more serious attitude and lowered his voice: "Federal Rep. Randall has found me, and your next task is to help him keep the operation of the Apollo Theater with the Inner City Broadcasting Company according to the gentleman's agreement we made with Rrangel before." ”

"So fast? I thought Giuliani wouldn't do it until at least his second term. Ms. Sloan asked.

"It's not Giuliani, it's like a jazz singer who was caught peddling food in a theater, and the Elephant Party members of the New York City Council took the opportunity to make a fuss, and it's not the first time that they've proposed to take back the right to operate, you know." "Wrangell's foundation has also been caught in some other financial dealings," Song said. ”

After New York was replaced by the Elephant Party, the city government has been trying to take back the management of the Apollo Theater from the Manhattan gang, rather than being kept by the inner city broadcaster on cheap leases.

Song Ya spent more than 30 million yuan to invest in the inner city broadcasting company, and has just been elected as the chairman, of course, he has to desperately keep this most stable profit point, not to mention that he and Rangel also carried out a series of complex interest exchanges involving the general commander and the party whip Underwood.

"So now the 'battlefield' is mostly focused on the New York City Council, right?"

Ms. Sloan learned something, "It doesn't look like the problem is serious, we can hold it." ”

"yes, uh, at least that's what Wrangel said to me." Song Ya didn't know much about the specific details of the new situation in his busy schedule, "You are my political adviser, this is your job, contact him." ”

“OK。”

Sloan found his address book and began to call on the spot.

"What about me? What are my tasks? ”

Alicia glanced at Sloane, who was distracted, and sat opposite Song Ya with her hair stroked, "I heard DeLay say that DTS's listing is not a success?" I'm sorry, but I didn't pay too much attention to this because I was helping Peter with the election. ”

"It fell below the issue price on the first day, but ...... It doesn't matter, just raise the money. ”

Song Ya waved his hand and quipped, "I don't even dare to ask you to help me now, Madame Governor." ”

"It's okay, you're a big client of me and my law firm, and everything is at your disposal." She crossed her feet and sat comfortably.

Haha, this woman, "Okay, it's still the Inner City Broadcasting Company......"

After becoming the chairman, the divestiture and spin-off of non-performing assets of the Inner City Broadcasting Company were completed by Linda, Dr. Chen, Morningstar and Alicia's law firm.

At the same time, Sony Tower, "Uh, before the meeting continues, I'm going to make a message about the company and myself. Schulhoff, president of Sony Electronics North Rice, solemnly announced to the executives gathered on both sides of the conference table, "Due to health reasons, I will retire on the 31st of this month and will no longer hold any management positions in the company in the future......

The bomb immediately detonated the conference room, all of which had passed through the wind and waves, and everyone took advantage of adjusting their sitting postures to digest the news, trying their best not to show it.

Daniel put his finger to his lips and looked at Motura across the table, who was calmer than himself, completely silent.

Schulhoff is under the protection of Norio Oga, the father of CD, and the current CEO of Sony, Nobuyuki Idei, does not like him, which is no secret within the company, it seems that Norio Oga has finally compromised with Nomiyuki Idei, or simply Oga himself has lost power? It also needs to be observed.

And Motura is close to Shulhof again, and now that Shulhof is gone, then ......

Daniel carefully considered the stakes, in fact, Schulhoff's departure was not good for himself, after all, he finally made the decision to make himself the president of Sony Columbia Records, and he was the one who transferred Motura to Sony Entertainment. He's stupid, conceited, lacks energy, doesn't like any changes, and he's a layman in the record industry, almost the 'perfect boss'.

But, Sony really should have replaced him a long time ago.,It's enough to bear the drag of the book until now.,I have to wait and see who the next successor will be! Life has to go on, Daniel comforted himself.

"Daniel Glass tells us a little bit about Sony Columbia Records' fight against online piracy...... "The lengthy meeting continued, and it was near the end that Schulhoff brought up the record industry's agenda.

"Okay, so now the Big Six have agreed to form a response coalition, led by Universal Music boss Mr. Bronfman Jr., and the first meeting will be in ......" Daniel cleared his throat and began to state.

"Hahaha! Alicia, wait a minute, you can enjoy DeLay's performance, the president of A+ Audio is a crappy third-rate rapper. ”

More and more concert-related personnel began to be in place, and Song Ya's business was repeatedly interrupted by the director and others who came to report the situation and communicate the details, and he could only choose to chat about some political gossip, such as the two parties could not agree on the federal budget last month, and the federal government was forced to close its doors for five days, and it continued to close its doors on the fifth of this month......

When sending Alicia and Sloan out, Song Yale grimaced, "Linda, send them to the VIP box, be careful not to let the reporter see it." ”

"I understand." Linda leads the way.

"See you back at APLUS." Alicia quietly made a helpless expression at Sloane's back in front of her.

Is it disgusting to dislike light bulbs? Do you still want to find a chance here? Wow, is there such a hurry? Song Ya couldn't help but be even happier, "There is food in the box, please feel free to Alicia ......"

Another meeting, held at Microsoft's headquarters, was held in a very depressing atmosphere, chaired by Bill Gates, who was reading to a document: "First, while browsing the Internet, I could hardly find a file format that Microsoft could support. I used it for more than ten hours, but I didn't see a single Word document, AVI file, EXE, or file format that we were able to support. I saw a lot of Quicktime files that all movie studios use to provide movie trailers, and that's owned by Apple. Second, another popular file format on the Internet is PDF, and even the IRS offers tax forms in PDF format. HTML is still a bit limited, so PDF is a standardized alternative, and Adobe is investing heavily in this technology. Quicktime and PDFs are popular on the web because they are cross-platform and available to readers for free. ”

Now he is not the image of the tech nerd next door when he introduced his products, and put down the document with a gloomy face, "This is the content of the internal email 'Internet Tide' I sent out in May, and now that it is the end of the year, our situation on the Internet has not changed at all!" I also wrote at the time: 'One of the competitors on the Internet is Netscape, and their browsers dominate with a 70 percent share.' And now! Their share is eighty-five percent, or even higher! We are being ridiculed by everyone. ”

The rest of the room was silent, and at times when Ballmer was usually the only one who dared to pick up, "Now we see that every online service can add extra value to the Internet." We need to make the overall value of it stand out so that users can overcome cost considerations and really get on board, so that the Internet can reach a critical point of explosive growth. Before, we were a little conservative in judging the timing of reaching this critical value, but now it's not too late, we have caught up and surpassed our competitors in business competition more than once, and this time it is not a problem. ”

"Internet service is very cheap or even free." Someone answered: "The regular version of Netscape Browser is distributed in the form of shareware, and it can be used normally even if the user does not make a payment." The profitability outlook for this sector is uncertain......"

"Their server software sales on the enterprise intranet are very good, a set of licenses is about more than 1,000 meters, and SUN's servers and operating systems are used together, and they are negotiating deployment contracts with AOL, GE and many other large companies, and it will be really too late for us to do something." Ballmer shook his head.

“APLUS！ APLUS！ APLUS！ ”

When night came, the stage lights were shining, and the audience was all seated, basically young people, they took advantage of the time to entertain themselves before the opening, lined up the crowd waves, shouted slogans, and some fans of the fan club also prepared their own light sticks endorsed by Song Ya and waved, "You Want to Want Me!" The female fans shouted excitedly in tears.

'Bang! Fireworks suddenly exploded above the stage, and the screams of the audience reached a high point.

“3、2、1！ Gogogo！ The director began to urge in his ears, Song Ya took a deep breath, and the staff guarding the side of the stage clashed fists one by one like basketball players before they came on the court, and then rushed out.

"Ahh Yes! APLUS I'M HERE! "The girls in the 'standing ticket' area right in front of the stage are starting to go crazy with.

"Hello, New York." He said in a bass voice into the microphone.

NAS put on sunglasses and went on stage with Al and the others, and he fluently played with his mouth, "Yo, ladies and gentlemen, today is my brother APLUS's first big concert in New York, what do you want to hear him sing in your first song!?" He pointed his microphone offstage.

The audience chanted in a mess.

"Huh!? Be louder! The NAS shouted, "Bigger!" ”

“Empire State Of Mind！” The audience finally agreed and shouted in unison, and it seemed that New Yorkers still liked the song the most.

"Okay, here's Remember The Name! Thank you! NAS gestured to the band, and the accompaniment sounded.

The brothers sang on the stage, and they were so excited on and off the stage.

"My vision is! Platform-based business, that is, to ensure that Windows is the best choice for Internet users, is our moat. The app and content department needs to figure out how to make money with your services. ”

Microsoft's meeting continued, and Gates said: "We still have a considerable advantage in terms of the future, which is built on the huge user base of Windows and Office, Internet-style adjustments, and also an opportunity, and I intend to integrate IE2.0 next year with the operating system and make it available to users for free......"

"Well, in this case, will there be a legal risk of suspected bundling?" Some people hesitantly raised their hands to put forward their opinions, "At present, the anti-monopoly calls in various industries are very high. ”

"We will prepare a total of two billion dollars in capital expenditures to defeat our rival alliances."

Gates didn't pay attention to the man, "We should have taken decisive action after Netscape rejected our kindness in June, and the lost half a year is my responsibility, but from now on, I want you to work at full speed, I will not allow failure!" The user experience of IE2.0 must be greatly improved to grab as much market share as possible from Netscape Browser! ”

"Next year's Window NT 4.0 must provide the same user experience as SUN's Solaris!"

"Our alliance with Inter will encourage DEC, HP and others to continue to challenge SUN's minicomputer and workstation market."

"Our IIS (Internet Server Component) will benchmark Netscape's enterprise server software."

"We use VBScript to benchmark their JavaScript!"

The dreary meeting kept going on and on, and on the other side of the concert, Song Ya looked up at the stunt actress who had been hanging above the stage, and knew that it was soon her turn to perform the song Earned It, almost halfway through the whole concert.

A little tired, his face began to sweat out, and he skillfully took advantage of the chaos of the previous group of singers and dancers leaving the stage and the seven female dancers holding stools on stage, and while waving to the fascinated audience, he walked to the side of the stage and stretched out his hand to make a code.

Taragi took the water and handed it over, he bit the straw and took a few sips, no matter how thirsty he was, he couldn't drink too much, otherwise it would affect the state of the dance later.

Hit on the back, he frowned and looked at the young white man in the dancing group.

The rookie perpetrator may have been too nervous to notice at all, and ran after the dancing group without looking back.

"Hmm." He returned the cup to Taragi and changed into a towel to wipe off his sweat a little.

The music sounded, and the amazing figures of the female dancers made the male audience cry wolf and howl, all kinds of whistles, hehe, they are much more conservative today than in the MV, and when Earned It's MV is released with the new album music video, why don't you hurry up and buy it and collect it home?

Song Yamei thought to herself, raised the microphone and started singing, "You make it look like it's magic...... Huh? Why does it seem that there is a problem with the ear monitor, and I can't hear the sound.

The stage is very big, the sound is very loud, and it is not easy for the singer to hear the rhythm clearly on stage, or the rhythm he hears is slower than the actual one, this is not good, he touched his waist, as if the connector between the ear monitor and the wireless transmitter was knocked off by the collision just now, no hurry, now must not be in a hurry, he sang while groping and tidying up.

“Fxxk！” While singing, it was almost a minute before it was good, Song Ya observed that the enthusiasm of the audience in the front row did not seem to be enough, and the facial expressions were also a little subtle, singing wrong? Or is the tempo slow? I can't hear the director's reminder when I don't hear this ear backdrop!

The sweat on his forehead was even happier, and he looked back at the band, where the violinist was desperately trying to give him a look, and he was really slow......

Earned It has a lot of its own harmonic accompaniment, and if something goes wrong, it's easy to make yourself and your voice fight in the ring, and the live effect will be very ugly.

He finally got the in-ear plug and fumbled for the connector on the wireless transmitter.

This time, even the female dancer who was dancing was making a look.

Damn it! He hurriedly turned around, the stunt actress had slowly hung down from the top of her head, and at this time there should have been some ambiguous movements of shaking and caressing, but his hands couldn't come out, he simply walked behind the actress, intending to use her body to cover and concentrate on getting the ears back.

Well, forgot the words......

With a bag full of head, he eagerly hummed and fooled with the live accompaniment, and finally plugged in the ear back.

The director was yelling angrily, 'This is the scene of a car accident!' ’

"We have to compete with our opponents in every product direction, whether they are good at it or not, even if our user experience can't be surpassed for a while, we can force them to make mistakes!"

"We have a heritage that they can't match, and our management team is the best in the world today," Gates said. I've heard that Jim Clark is now spending most of his energy on building new yachts? Bucksd and Mark Anderson go to the media every once in a while and happily spend a lot of time laughing at us!? They're just a bunch of lucky rookies, completely! There is no experience in managing a company with a market capitalization of 10 billion at all! ”

"I know, I know." Song Ya walked off the stage with a gloomy face, stopping the gossip of Taraghi, the director and others, "There's no time to review now, you guys check the equipment again, what about the rookie dancer just now?" I'll fire him at the end of the New York session! ”

"That guy is gone." The dance group ran over and shouted, "What should we do if we have one less person for the next dance?" ”

"Huh?" Song Ya's eyes sharpened, and he smelled a bad breath.

"Let's go on the bench." The anxious director pushed him onto the stage, "I don't have time to worry about this matter for the time being." ”

Fortunately, the performances that followed were all smooth, just a car accident, both passers-by and the audience and fans will understand, and they are not those picky music critics, "Encore! Encore! They reluctantly shouted, "Empire State Of Mind!" ”

New Yorkers are really obsessed with this song, but Mariah Carey can't sing it alone without coming, and it's going to be divorced......

"No, no, no." Song Ya smiled and picked up the microphone, "It's still the same old rule, Say Goodbye!" ”

"Uh......"

The meeting at Microsoft was finally over, and Ballmer scratched his bald head and left one of his men in the room, "Well, Bill's personality is always a bit idealistic, and I think we need to use more brutal competitive methods." You go and say hello to AOL and other network service providers privately, and ask them if they can change the user access page from Netscape to IE next year. ”

"It's kind of dangerous, isn't it? Unfair competition...... "The subordinates hesitated a little, "they will definitely take the opportunity to open their mouths." ”

"Tell them that Microsoft is willing to pay any price to beat Netscape!" Ballmer said firmly.

"Daniel."

Sony's meeting ended early, and the executives gathered to discuss a farewell dinner for Schulhoff, when Motura came to call him, "Mr. Idei wants to see you." ”

"He's there?" Daniel was a little surprised that he hadn't seen the Sony CEO in a day's meetings.

"Hmm." Motura silently led the way.

"Mr. Glass."

Nobuyuki Idei maintained his usual politeness and bowed politely when they met, "I'm sorry to inform you that we intend to let Tommy back as president of Columbia Records." ”

Daniel was stunned, "You guys...... Isn't it too ...... for you to do that? Too child's play? ”

"Maybe, but we've decided that we're going to give you a decent way to leave, and if you're going to concentrate on managing your own record company, we'll fund it, just like everyone else." Nobuyuki Idei said.

Tommy...... Motula! Daniel looked at Motura viciously, gritting his teeth and pronouncing his name word by word, "You villain, do you think now is a good opportunity for you to return to Sony Columbia Records?" Just so confident? You're going to be out of luck! ”

"Don't get me wrong."

Motura shrugged and pretended to be innocent, "I'm the same hapless guy as you are, and I'm losing my position as president of Sony Entertainment because of that damn money train." ”

"A lot of singers from Sony Columbia don't like him." Daniel looked at Nobuyuki Idei again.

"We know, but ...... Anyway, we've decided. I'm so sorry! Nobuyuki Idei bowed again, then stretched out his hand, "Don't be upset Daniel, we won't do more to pursue some of your actions during your tenure, that's all, okay?" ”

"Damn, that newcomer seems to have really run away!?"

The backstage was chaotic, and the dancers and staff were running around looking for people at the urging of the director. Song Ya didn't care about it, walked into the lounge without saying a word, took off the sweat-soaked performance costume and threw it on the ground, there were already many subordinates waiting inside, "I asked people to go to his residence to find it." Linda reports.

"Well, but even if you find him, don't use any coercive means, be careful of falling into a trap and killing me."

Song Ya felt that this thing was a trap, and she didn't know who wanted to make a public fool of herself, it was really naïve! A car accident can ruin me or what? Well? It can't be my wife's doing, right?

"APLUS, YOU WERE SUMMONED BY CONGRESS, ......"

Ms. Sloan walked in with an envelope, "It's the House hearing on the telecommunications bill, and you, as chairman of the Inner City Broadcasting Company, have been summoned to attend next January, which is next month, and you'll be better then." ”

"What the hell? Can I not go? ”

Such a coincidence? Song Ya took the envelope, he didn't want to participate in any broken hearings now, completely unfamiliar territory.

"Yes, but don't, the hearing committee has the authority to issue a subpoena, and you still have to go and have the obligation to provide the necessary documents. But don't worry, it's a very ordinary hearing process, and the hearing of the telecommunications bill involves a lot of people, all walks of life. Reach out to your friends in the House of Representatives and ask them to take care of you, or maybe they came up with the idea to help endorse the telecommunications bill on behalf of African-American media. Sloan laughed, "That's a good thing." ”